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Women On Lead: Katie Ives, Editor-In-Chief Of Alpinist Magazine

This is the first in a series entitled “Women on Lead, Katie Ives” which highlights women who are shaping the climbing industry and climbing community as writers, thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs. Katie Ives leads the way in the Tetons and in outdoor media. Photo by Dylan Taylor. Mountaineering has often been hailed as the most ‘literary of all sports.’ While nowadays everyone is busy tweeting about their first ascents, we owe it to people like Katie Ives, Editor-in-Chief …

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Namuli: An Interview With Majka Burhardt

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An interview with Majka Burhardt: When I first heard about Majka Burhardt I was immediately struck by all she has accomplished as a professional climber, guide, filmmaker, author, and entrepreneur. In 5th grade, she won the award for the most checking penalties in the boys’ hockey league, and since then has had an impressive career as a climber, including an ascent of The Bachelor Stroll (WI6) in Frankenstein Cliff, New Hampshire. Her most recent endeavors …

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Bouldering In The Southeast: Horse Pens 40, Rocktown & Stone Fort

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Bouldering in the southeast this past fall season has been distressing to say the least. If you’re a southern sandstone crusader, then you’ll understand exactly what I’m talking about. Looking out your window, or on the interwebs of Weather Underground has been like sticking your precious finger skin into scalding water over and over again. The rain and humidity (no thanks to El Niño) have been an agitation to every local and visiting dirt bag. …

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The Diy Guide To Digital Dirtbagging Around The World

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Yes, you heard right; the diy guide to digital dirtbagging around the world. Let’s be honest, at some point nearly every climber has thought about leaving his or her day job for the open road. Some of us are lucky enough to live the dream, while the rest of us can only watch in envy. In today’s guest post, Jack Lyons of Adventure In My Veins gives some helpful tips on how to turn your dirtbagging …

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Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way: Climbing With A Chronic Illness

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Climbing With A Chronic Illness: A colleague introduced me to climbing a few years ago in the hope it would help with my insomnia. Little did I know that climbing would help me with so much more than insomnia. When I first got into climbing, I was going through a tough time having lost my father to cancer and trying to complete my architecture course at Leeds Beckett University. Climbing was a revelation – I …

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Perseverance: When Fear Raises Its Ugly Head…Again

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When Fear Raises Its Ugly Head…Again: We all have struggles in life. Whether it be with family, relationships, injury, or something else – we all have our own battles. What separates us from where we want to be is how we choose to deal with our struggles. Do we accept it as just the way it is or do we fight for what we want? November of 2014 I was the most confident climber I …

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Climbing Out Of Depression

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Climbing out of depression: I have struggled with depression and suicide since I was 12. Throughout high school I thought I had it all figured out; I covered it up with designer clothes and makeup trying to hide the sadness and despair I was feeling underneath. I went to a very conservative private school and did everything I could do to fit in. How To Do Climbing Out Of Depression, My Experience I tried to …

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Climbing In The Year 2030: Climbing Mentality

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Part four Climbing In The Year 2030: Climbing Mentality. Over the last two weeks, climber and author John Burgman has looked into climbing’s crystal ball and predicted how the sport might change over the next 15 years. Today we go back to the future one last time and take a look at potential changes to the climbing mentality. Climbing Mentality In a recent Ask Me Anything on Reddit, Lynn Hill was asked about the mental side …

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Climbing In The Year 2030: Gyms And Facilities

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Today we’ve got part 2 of 4 of John Burgman’s series “Climbing in the Year 2030”. In part 1 he took a look at how training may evolve over the next 15 years and in today’s segment he chats with gym owners and training experts to predict what the future holds for climbing gyms and training facilities. Are Climbing Gyms The New Urban Fitness Craze? While there are still those die-hards who view indoor climbing as somehow inferior …

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Climbing In The Year 2030: Training

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Over the next two weeks, we will take a look into the future of climbing (climbing in the year 2030) in a 4 part series. The sport has changed tremendously since 2000. Guest contributor John Burgman, author of Why We Climb, talked with experts in the climbing field to explore how the sport might progress in the next 15 years. Take a moment and think back to your climbing life in the year 2000. Perhaps you weren’t …

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